Highgate Archway (Eocene of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.6° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 2.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: London Clay Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

• Repository: Sowerby collection, now in BMNH

Primary reference: J. Sowerby. 1812. No. I of the mineral conchology of Great Britain; or colored figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth. The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain 1:9-16 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165992: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.02.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
"Nautilus ziczac n. sp." = Aturia ziczac
"Nautilus ziczac n. sp." = Aturia ziczac Sowerby 1812
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
"Nautilus imperialis n. sp." = Cimomia imperialis
"Nautilus imperialis n. sp." = Cimomia imperialis Sowerby 1812